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* Brief black and white clip of a comedian singing "Figaro." | * Brief black and white clip of a comedian singing "Figaro." | ||
* And this week we're in... America! | * And this week we're in... America! | ||
| + | ** Brief black and white clip of women wearing bizarre glasses, including a shot of Max in the scissor glasses from the Vidal Sassoon episode. | ||
| + | * Back to America... | ||
Revision as of 20:10, 13 November 2015
| Episode CH4.3.4 | |
|---|---|
| Title | The Max Headroom Show |
| US Air Date | 12 Sep 1986 |
| UK Air Date | 27 Jan 1987 |
| Length | 30 minutes |
| Guests | Tracey Ullman |
| Crew | Talk Show Crew |
| Matt Frewer | Max Headroom |
The third episode of the second Channel Four season of the Max Headroom talk show featured singer, actress and comedienne Tracey Ullman.
The MaxRchives contain complete recordings of both the US and UK broadcasts of this episode.
Videos & Segments
- Max appears among a blur of technical and video faults. (In the UK version, a distorted and shattered "4" logo appears; in the US version, those are replaced by the "Cinemax Presents" slide, which briefly appears upside down.)
- Max apologizes - it's the pressure of being a star, and the guys around him are idle.
- Max plays a concerto on a grand piano, but battles with the rest of the orchestra coming in too soon.
- Max does a cockney huckster riff to the "ladies," throwing in one thing (a video) after another (an interview) for free, even though it's costing him.
- Video: The Smiths, "Panic"
- Max riffs about his early days as an actor in an old Englishman's accent.
- Brief black and white clip of a comedian singing "Figaro."
- And this week we're in... America!
- Brief black and white clip of women wearing bizarre glasses, including a shot of Max in the scissor glasses from the Vidal Sassoon episode.
- Back to America...
- Tracey Ullman: "Breakaway"
- Peter Gabriel: "Sledgehammer"
- Max and his guest Tracey Ullman talk about:
- Not being a Cockney
- Her daughter's name Mabel
- How golf gets on her tits
- Plans for her first show in America (which actually happened a year later)
- Being married to a millionaire
- Her music career
- Max's coke ads in America
- Luck
Notes & Commentary
tap, tap... Is this thing on?
Quotes & Caps
S-stay tu-tu-tuned...
(Max's speech in this season finally stops using the extreme stuttering and repetition, probably as much for technical, audience and production reasons as because it was getting tiresome. I am still trimming such repetitions to minimum indicators here in the transcriptions.)
- Max: "Ha... I'm sorry. It's the pressure of being a star. You know how it is. Oh... you don't. But I do. From time to time I get a little bit... temperamental with the guys around me. You see, I'm the idol of millions, and, well, that's the trouble. They're idle... and I earn millions."
- Max: "Well, where am I... (whistles first notes of 'The Star Spangled Banner') Yep, you guessed it. Give me an A for Anglo-Saxons, an M for Mexicans, E for Europeans, R for Russians, I for Italians, give me a C for Costa Ricans, an A for Africans, and what have you got... besides a lot of letters? America, America... Yes, what a mixed bag of a country this is - home of the Chevrolet, home of the home run and don't forget, home of the brave. Eh... was til they wiped them all out. Yes, America, where the Indians have never been forgiven for getting there first. And why? Because the Indians didn't introduce anything decent to eat, that's why! The Poles gave 'em pickled gherkins, the Italians brought over pizza, the Germans, sauerkraut... put 'em all together, and whaddya got? Jewish delicatessen. And because Americans don't have to move out of their own country to find every style of terrain, weather and loud checked trousers. Yes-s-s! And it's a troubled country, which has come through the McCarthy trial and tribulation because it haa-has its foundations firmly based on the principles of liberty, fraternity and Laurel and Hardy. Course. Course. And, of course, freedom of speech... something they should never have told Dr. Ruth Westheimer about. But-but-but let's take a good look at what has emerged from a land where having chaps on your legs was something you can talk about openly. From the land of the chuck wagon and... cowpoke. Who got his name from... poking cows. (Let's hope it was with a stick.) Well, c'mon, it's a lonely job driving cattle, right?"
- Max: " "
- Max: " "
